Binalakshmi “Bina” Nepram (@BinaNepram), is an indigenous scholar and civil rights activist from Manipur Nation, Northeast India, spearheading work on women-led peace, security and disarmament. In 2004, she co-founded India’s first civil society organization for conventional disarmament issues, Control Arms Foundation of India. Binalakshmi launched the Manipur Women Gun Survivor Network in 2007 to help women survivors of conflict and has represented Asian civil society in several high-level meetings of the United Nations in Geneva and New York.

Bina was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York in the Indigenous Studies Program, and was Connecticut College’s Gender and Women Studies Department & Walter Commons Global Studies IIE-SRF Scholar-In-Residence in 2018. She is author of five books, her two most recent being “Where are our Women in Decision Making on UNSCR 1325” (2016) & “Deepening Democracy, Diversity and Women’s Rights in India” (2019).